Do you know that in the 1980s. all over the world there were no girls more popular than American Samantha Smith and Soviet schoolgirl Katya Lycheva - both girls performed the role of "goodwill ambassadors".
In 1983, Samantha Smith came to the USSR.
In 1986, a Soviet "dove of the world" 11-year-old Katya Lychyova was sent to the United States. Then she was called the most famous schoolgirl of the planet, but in the 1990's. she suddenly disappeared ...
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In 1985, Samantha Smith died in a plane crash, and the American organization "Children as Peacekeepers" invited the USSR to organize a return visit to the US of a Soviet schoolgirl. In order to choose a small "ambassador of peace", they held a special competition in which about 6,000 children took part. The condition was one: the girl must actively advocate peace and be no older than Samantha. The choice fell on Katya Lychyova.
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Katya was born in a family of research associates in Moscow, she studied at the English special school №4, she acted in film "The Living Rainbow". Acting experience helped her freely and liberally stay in public.
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From March 21 to April 4, 1986 Katya Lycheva, along with American schoolgirl Star Roe, toured the United States.
"In 5 minutes, Mr. Reagan appeared, extended his hand and said that he was very glad to see me in the White House. I handed him a toy and explained that it was made by Soviet guys who, like all our people, want peace. And then she said: "I think that children can not live peacefully on Earth while it has nuclear weapons, and I know that our country offered to destroy all-all nuclear weapons on Earth even before I grow up. so that it happens, then all the children will be happy. "